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I made several backgrounds using water marbling technique. You can check it out in the video below.

Basically I was dripping the refills into the water, placing a paper onto the water and picking it up right after that. This technique is quite easy and fast. It works on both watercolor paper and cardstock. And you always get an unique result.

I made three cards using the backgrounds created with this technique.

DIMENSIONAL INLAID SENTIMENT

I wanted to save this background so I went with a dimensional inlaid sentiment design. I really like the background and didn’t want to “waste” it cutting off some of it. You know that feeling when you cry cutting some design paper for example, right?

USING MARBLED BACKGROUND AS A BASE FOR STAMPED IMAGES

I adhered the flowers onto a card base made out of Parchment Cardstock.

And I added white embossed sentiment, black splatters and Onyx crystals to finish off the card.

As I already had “coloring” from the marbled background I didn’t need to add any additional coloring to the die-cuts. This design is very easy as well.

SPECIAL PROMOTION

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PRIZES

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I will also randomly choose a winner from comments left on this post and the prize will be $20 gift certificate to Altenew online store. Please leave a comment on this post by 09/25/2018 at 11:59 PM EST for a chance to win. I will announce the winner here in this post on 09/26/2018.

SUPPLIES

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Mindy Drummond

September 20, 2018

I am so excited about the marker refills, Altenew has done it again (made me so happy lol). I love the look of backgrounds made with alcohol inks then die cutting out of them. Your projects have given me more inspiration for creations, thank you!

Sue

Annalisa

September 23, 2018

These are a delightful twist on CAS. The black dimension behind the sentiment on the first one really helps it stand out, and I love the images just stamped onto already colored paper and die cut. It’s such a different look than standard coloring, which just makes for really interesting cards. Thank you for sharing these ideas with us!